Outstanding Educator Award

Associate Professor TAN Cheng Yian, Bernard

PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons) (NUS)
Head, Department of Information Systems

Current Teaching Portfolio
Strategic Information Systems Planning

Teaching Achievements
  • a pioneer in distance learning - first to use second-generation Internet to teach an entire course (Global Project Co-ordination) in real-time to masters students from Stanford University, Royal Swedish Institute of Technology and NUS
  • two of his teaching assignments - The Internet is Changing the Music Industry and Role of Information Technology in Successful Knowledge Management Initiatives - were published in Communications of the ACM
  • cases/papers developed by him have been adopted as teaching materials by Stanford University, University of British Columbia and University of St Gallen, amongst others

Teaching Strengths
  • combines a unique blend of content-based education with process-based education
  • holds discussions with students instead of tutorials
  • focuses on developing independent inquiry by challenging students to think and investigate for themselves

Publication Credits
More than 20 articles published in top international journals including Management Information Systems Quarterly, Information Systems Research and Management Science

Editorial Board Memberships
  • Senior Editor, Management Information Systems Quarterly
  • Associate Editor, Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies

International Standing
  • Asia-Pacific Councillor, Association for Information Systems, 2004-2006
  • Member, Nominating Committee, Association for Information Systems, 1999, 2001
  • Programme Track Co-chair, International Conference on Information Systems, 2004

Awards and Accolades
  • NUS List of Excellent Teachers, 2003
  • Young Researcher Award, NUS University Awards, 2002
  • NUS Teaching Excellence Award, 2000

Teaching Strengths to introduce more process-based education so that students can effectively adapt to changing situations and remain valuable to their organisations.